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Rider	Lost Phase IV Ending Being Screened In LA	Lead	[-]
Jun 20 12 6:13 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Just had it confirmed that the big surprise at this weekends Cinefamily showing of Phase IV is that they are showing the original uncut ending. This is personally one of my holly grails and I wish I could be in LA for it. http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/saul_basss_visionary_sci_fi_film_phase_lv_for_your_viewing_pleasure
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Dr Acula		#1	[-]
Jun 20 12 8:27 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Amazing stuff - is there any chance of a DVD restoration?
Rider		#2	[-]
Jun 20 12 8:55 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Dr Acula wrote: Amazing stuff - is there any chance of a DVD restoration? No clue. Considering that it was just released on DVD, I would imagine we would have to wait for someone to do a Blu-ray even if anyone has interest in it.
Koukol 5		#3	[-]
Jun 20 12 12:47 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Oh man! I bought the DVD but haven't watched it yet! I had no idea the ending was "lost"
Rider		#4	[-]
Jun 20 12 12:53 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Koukol 5 wrote: Oh man! I bought the DVD but haven't watched it yet! I had no idea the ending was "lost" It's not on the DVD. The DVD is disappointing no bonus material at all, they didn't even bother sticking the trailer on the DVD. Kinda ticks me off that the cut footage was out there somewhere, probably easily accessible, but they were too lazy to do anything with it until now.
G Vallejo		#5	[-]
Jun 21 12 10:11 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Any idea what the ending is? I have the DVD and the novelization, but I haven't read it yet. I love this movie! A perfect Monster has no end...
Dr Acula		#6	[-]
Jun 21 12 11:33 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	G Vallejo wrote: Any idea what the ending is? I have the DVD and the novelization, but I haven't read it yet. I love this movie! This is what is currently on Wikipedia, which goes with what I've read about the ending through more traditional sources: According to the IMDb, Bass complained in interviews that the film was re-edited after previews by 20th Century Fox radically altering the ending of the film which consisted of surreal images presented in a montage. The montage was supposed to suggest that the two surviving characters were altered by the ants creating the next step in evolution for humanity and insects. Many of the images from the altered conclusion of the film appear in the trailer and although it has recently been released to home video by Legend Films, the reissue on DVD features the shorter U.S. version which had 9 minutes stripped from the film before its official U.S. debut. If you look at the trailer, some of those excised shots exist there...
hulahoop	fragment of lost ending posted on Youtube (but you better hurry!)	#7	[-]
Jul 4 12 12:46 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCJwUQceLcs From the Youtube poster: "Screened June 24th, 2012 in Los Angeles. Sorry, I didn't record the first several minutes of this amazing lost ending and also sorry for the bad angle it's shot at and the heads in the way, but hopefully this short 1-minute excerpt from the final moments of the lost ending will give those who couldn't make it or get into the sold-out screening a small glimpse of what the sequence was (and those first few minutes of this lost sequence that I didn't record were way more surreal/abstract than what you see here). Hopefully, there will be a DVD or Blu restoration some day and I've been informed that Legend's license on the film has actually now expired and the film is officially back with Paramount! So please spread the word to Paramount (or better yet, Criterion) that you want this film restored to Saul Bass' original vision with his original ending intact. That the cut ending still exists is a MIRACLE, so restoring the ending back into the film is now the easy part." In response to a question; "The sequence was maybe about 5 minutes long (not including the end credits) so the clip here is missing the first 4 minutes. All the other stuff you see in the trailer that was cut from the theatrical print is shown in those earlier minutes. Really wish I had recorded the whole sequence. " Discussion on IMDb makes me think that this video is going to be pulled, so you might want to check it out while it still is there.
Rider		#8	[-]
Jul 4 12 11:17 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The first screening sold out and when they tried to do one a week later this happened: I went to the encore presentation. Hadrian, the head programmer, said the Bass family or trust or whatever asked that the ending not be shown again. They needed to sort out some legal issues it sounded like. It also sounded like they may start the ball rolling to put it out on dvd. I guess Cinefamily bought a print and it had the ending intact. I'm a little bummed that I didn't get to see the ending, but someone brought Cinefamily a better print of the original film. Cool.
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Dr Acula		#9	[-]
Jul 5 12 8:38 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It's sad that it's currently pulled, but it will be VERY GOOD if they can get it released to DVD! My God, what's Bond doing?... I think he's attempting re-entry, sir. http://www.eccentric-cinema.com/ Cole's Comics: All About Jack Cole http://colescomics.blogspot.com/
Rider		#10	[-]
Jul 5 12 11:27 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Someone needs to just bootleg it while they still have the print just in case.
Jameson281		#11	[-]
Jul 5 12 1:09 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Rider wrote: Someone needs to just bootleg it while they still have the print just in case. Yea, that will really encourage holders of rare material to allow them to be screened . . .
Rider		#12	[-]
Jul 5 12 2:09 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Jameson281 wrote: Rider wrote: Someone needs to just bootleg it while they still have the print just in case. Yea, that will really encourage holders of rare material to allow them to be screened . . . Sorry don't care. If you have it release it. I never bought this argument in the slightest. No one has had any interest in this footage for 40 years, suddenly the second someone finds a copy and actually gets people interested in the film again there are legal issues and threats. Kind of like that guy with the lost Bowie footage last year who freaked out and threatend to destroy all his masters. I mean we all know how great it works when studios keep control over footage and lock it away. I'm so happy that MGM kept such tight control of all the copies of LAM, wouldn't want any bootleg copies of that out there. Last Edited By: Rider Jul 5 12 2:13 PM. Edited 2 times.
Jameson281		#13	[-]
Jul 5 12 2:48 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Rider wrote: Jameson281 wrote: Rider wrote: Someone needs to just bootleg it while they still have the print just in case. Yea, that will really encourage holders of rare material to allow them to be screened . . . Sorry don't care. If you have it release it. I never bought this argument in the slightest. No one has had any interest in this footage for 40 years, suddenly the second someone finds a copy and actually gets people interested in the film again there are legal issues and threats. You miss my point. If Person A owns something rare and Person B bootlegs it and spreads it all around, it will scare off other people with rare materials from sharing their stuff. It will drive more of it underground. That's not helping the public see the material.
Rider		#14	[-]
Jul 5 12 6:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Jameson281 wrote: Rider wrote: Jameson281 wrote: Rider wrote: Someone needs to just bootleg it while they still have the print just in case. Yea, that will really encourage holders of rare material to allow them to be screened . . . Sorry don't care. If you have it release it. I never bought this argument in the slightest. No one has had any interest in this footage for 40 years, suddenly the second someone finds a copy and actually gets people interested in the film again there are legal issues and threats. You miss my point. If Person A owns something rare and Person B bootlegs it and spreads it all around, it will scare off other people with rare materials from sharing their stuff. It will drive more of it underground. That's not helping the public see the material. Sorry been hearing this argument for years and it's just not true and it really fails to fly anymore. If it's out there somewhere it will leak eventually. This holding something of value to try to get something else rare of value traders paradigm has died. It's just far too easy to trade stuff in near perfect quality now. In fact in one of the private trading circles I'm in just had this conversation last week about how they will not let this type of attitude fly anymore.
Helrunar		#15	[-]
Jul 7 12 11:15 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	God, that ending is effin gorgeous. I'm one of the few who saw the movie in the theatre in '74 and I recall being baffled by how the movie simply seemed to end without an ending. And now of course the footage has been recovered and the bloody suits STILL won't let it be screened. Typical. I could rant on but why lacerate myself further. H.
spfxengine		#16	[-]
Jul 8 12 5:46 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	30 seconds into this preview on youtube you see a person stting in front of an ape on top of something that looks like a pyramide with stairs. That reminds me a lot of Saul Bass's shortfilm "Quest", where the hero plays chess with a neanderthal man on top of a pyramide. Visual elements that reappear!
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